Assignment for February 10

Great class yesterday! Here's what to do for next week:

READING
All texts are on the list to the right under the short-title assignation I've given them for this blog (their bibliographically correct titles can generally be found on title pages). The fake covers for the gooblebook texts are infuriating; try to look past this. Their are other glitches, too. Be sure to click on the "spread view" and "thumbnail" options. You are encouraged to read beyond the limits defined below. Many of the excerpts are taken from prefaces and introductions; keep this in mind. Also take a look at some of websites about historical broadsides and chapbooks: National Library of Scotland, V&A, South Carolina, Lilly Library.

Elizabethan Ballads and Broadsides (v - xxxi)

Halliwell (browse) note: enjoy the long s in this one

Curiosities... (browse)

On Some Somerset Chapbooks (entire piece) note: this one is hard to find, keep scrolling about 2/3rds the way through. Look at the table of contents page, it's in the 2nd volume.

Catnach (v - xlii)

Chapbooks of the 18th Century (browse)


WRITING
Write a list of ten things you learned from this week's reading. Type them up on a single sheet of paper and bring the sheet to class. Simple as that. Write ten miniature paragraphs. Each of your ten might be two or three sentences (some of them might be a single sentence, that's OK).

QUESTIONS
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